Okay, sorry for the absence, but my family's Thanksgiving kinda assploded all over me. There's something else going on, but I don't feel comfortable discussing it on a public message board. Sorry.
Anyway, the corollary to that is that I came home and got to read the last page and a half in one fell swoop. If anybody else out there feels like it, give it a swing, because a couple of things stick out to me.
First is that, as DS has noted, Than and DLS are acting a bit odd, compared to how they normally have behaved. Whether that is a result of either being hammered on repeatedly by DS or because they're scumbuddies is up to anyone's interpretation, but it's certainly worth noting.
However, the really interesting thing to me here is the progression of Disciple Slayer's rhetoric over the past little bit. For someone who has made a reputation for himself of posting short, inflammatory posts, DS has suddenly busted out with a few very verbose, aggressive quote-and-analysis posts and several accusations. I'm quite happy that he's working with quotations now and giving a more in-depth view of his thought process, but I just can't yet agree with the accusations he's levying or with the assumptions he's making.
One thing that really sticks out to me is that he claims that a Thanatos lynch is imminent when there's only 2 votes on the man. I don;t know why he said something like this, because it is on its face untrue as of now; I don't feel anywhere near comfortable enough in any spread of information to vote as of now, even on Liam, who I have talked about previously. Pushing for a quick lynch after a bad day 1 seems very odd to me, and DS seems to be trying to form up a bandwagon right now. Makes me wonder why.
Another interesting connection that DS has made is a possible connection between DLS and Thanatos, and his reasoning behind that also seems rather odd to me. As I recall, DLS was the only person not voting for anyone on day 1, and most of her activity in the thread was directed at DS. OTOH, Thanatos was an active part of the DT lynch, and had very little to do with DS. Neither DLS or Than had much to do with each other. Yet DS connects the two, and when they deny being scumbuddies (Big surprise, whether they are or not), DS takes that as immediate confirmation of his theory. Allow me to quote from Liam at the top of the page:
Disciple Slayer wrote:
I just gave a PBPA and you FOS me for quoting the words of a dead townie? I think your reasoning is flawed. Here's a vote to pressure you into more information.
Vote: Thanatos
Now watch as DLS rushes to defend him in her next post.
I'm actually pretty suprised nobody picked up on this, while it's true we need more information, this seems a little drastic.
I may not be Liam's biggest fan, but he's dead right here. DS seems to have baited DLS into speaking up in relation to his vote on Thanatos, and used that to claim the two are scumbuddies. Personally, this is a leap of logic I couldn't have made with a pole vault. Is it possible, and should we have a look into it? Sure, we should be looking into every plausible theory that gets posted. Is this proof? No. Normally, I'd be a little more conditional, but as they would say in Law and Order, DS has simply not made his prima facia case yet.
Further, a good portion of DS's case against the two is based on what he terms their overreaction to his accusations. In fairness, I think that it should be noted here that DS is at this point reacting very radically to anything either Thanatos or DLS posts, regardless of what it is. Frankly, all that this hyper-aggressive investigation of DLS and Thanatos that DS has drummed up has served only to make me more suspicious of him.
In fairness, DLS lying
and admitting to it
is quite concerning to me, and I'm really not sure what to do with this information. In context, she has been somewhat shifty in her positions the entire game, saying one thing and then sometimes posting a revision to her previous words, or a corollary. As far as I'm concerned, the jury is still out on whether she's scummy or just passive-aggressive, but I want to hear more from her either way.
In regards to Thanatos, I'm frankly buying his defense from DS's accusations right now (much moreso than the accusations themselves, as should be evident by this point). His counteranalyses of DS's PBPAs seem to jive for me, and he does point out at least one suspicious omission in DS's quotations, an omission that runs totally counter to what DS is saying. I'm not sold on Thanatos either way yet, and I'd like to hear more from him (god, I say that so much...), but right now I can't find much to pry at, at least not recent stuff.
Anyway, in summary,
FOS: Disciple Slayer
for a long, incongruous series of suspicious analyses of other peoples' thoughts, omitting quotations directly relevant to a PBPA, and seeming to bait out a supposed connection between two people that is on its face suspect at best.
